Walsall Reserves...7 Bury Reserves...2 - IT'S not often that the nature of a football match can be guessed simply by looking at the score but this disastrous defeat for the Shakers second string needs little more adding to it to provide a full picture of the game.

Andy Feeley's men now hold the unenviable position of bottom place in the Avon Insurance Premier League and the realisation that they will almost certainly be returning from whence they came at the end of what will undoubtedly be along, hard season.

The seeds of the heaviest defeat of the season were all sown in the first half as Walsall rampaged through a Bury side that contained three players who had been on the bench the previous night at Rochdale, for the first team's important win in the LDV Vans Trophy.

The Saddlers scored all of their goals in the first forty-five minutes, with Brazilian striker Herivelto the main protagonist, scoring a superb hat trick past an increasingly beleaguered Seb Rowe in the Bury goal.

A young Bury side's reply did not arrive until the 81st minute when John Blackley fired home a consolation, with Simon Whaley doubling Bury's goal tally four minutes later.